Will Smith opened up about his psychological well being, revealing in a trailer for his upcoming YouTube docuseries that he as soon as contemplated suicide.
The “Aladdin” actor, 53, has been on a difficult health journey to lose 20 kilos in 20 weeks. Smith mentioned the hunt not solely pushed him to get again into form, but it surely additionally helped him uncover “an entire lot of hidden issues about myself.”
“This started as a journey to get into the very best form of my life. Once I began this present I believed I used to be moving into the very best form of my life, bodily. However mentally, I used to be some place else,” he mentioned in a trailer launched Friday for “Will Smith: The Greatest Form Of My Life.”
“Now I am about to point out the world, how little I find out about myself. … What you’ve got come to know as Will Smith, the alien annihilating MC, greater than life film star, is essentially a building, a fastidiously crafted and honed character designed to guard myself, to cover myself from the world, to cover the coward.”
Within the trailer, Smith is seen understanding and coaching. One clip exhibits him sitting at a desk surrounded by his household.
“That was the one time in my life that I ever thought of suicide,” he mentioned. The actor didn’t present context after making the assertion.
Within the preview, Smith additionally talked about writing his upcoming memoir “Will.” He mentioned the ebook was “exposing a whole lot of issues” about his life together with “so many issues that individuals do not find out about me.”
The ebook is on the market for pre-order and can be launched on Nov. 9. The docuseries debuts on YouTube Nov. 8.
Should you or somebody you already know is susceptible to suicide, please name the Nationwide Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255, textual content TALK to 741741 or go to SpeakingOfSuicide.com/sources for extra sources.
